The Coming of Lugh: A Celtic Wonder-Tale Retold

by Ella Young

THE COMING OF LUGH
A CELTIC WONDER-TALE
RETOLD BY ELLA YOUNG
ILLUSTRATED BY MAUD GONNE

DUBLIN: MAUNSEL & CO., LTD.
96 MIDDLE ABBEY STREET
1909
All Rights Reserved

TO
SEAGHAN

Lugh.

THE COMING OF LUGH

Mananaan Mac Lir who rules the ocean took the little Sun-God, Lugh, in his arms and held him up so that he could see the whole of Ireland with the waves whispering about it everywhere.

“Say farewell to the mountains and rivers and the big trees and the flowers in the grass, O Lugh, for you are coming away with me.”

The child stretched out his hands and cried—

“Good-bye, mountains and flowers and rivers; some day I will come back to you.”